Realizing Islam, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot OA Edition The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World

by: Wright, Zachary Valentine, author

Publication date: 2020

Usage: Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Topics: SHMP, Tijānī, Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1737 or 1738-1815, Islam -- History -- 18th century, Sufism -- Africa, North, Tijānīyah -- Africa, North, RELIGION / Islam / History, Islam, Sufism, Tijānīyah, North Africa

Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press

Collection: sustainablehistorymonographpilot

Language: English

Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World, by Zachary Valentine Wright (University of North Carolina Press)

1 online resource (pages cm)

"The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period. While introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735-1815), Wright's focus is on the wider network in which the order developed-a veritable global Islamic revival whose scholars commanded large followings, shared key ideas, and produced literature read widely throughout the Muslim world. They were linked, Wright shows, through chains of knowledge transmission in the face of widespread Muslim prejudice against Sufism"--

Includes bibliographical references and index

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